We prefer to work on Agile/Scrum methodology, we had a good experience providing it in our company. It gave us more flexibly, clear development and management process and full control on each stage of the project. We do all our development in sprints. A sprint is a short 2 weeks burst development cycle focused on building software features fast and efficiently. Previously we only provided sprints as a part of large multi-month projects, but now you can benefit from our expertise on a sprint-by-sprint basis.
Our processes and working methods allow obtaining optimal results, because our guys are equally familiar with the Agile and Waterfall and select optimal solutions in custom situations.
Here are the practices that we follow:
- Scrum with 7-day or 14-day sprints
- Products and sprint backlogs
- Continuous integration, TDD, code reviews, pair programming
- Project tracking and collaboration using Jira, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, Git
- Code and demo are 100% visible at all times
- Daily and weekly reports and plans
- Regular meetings via Skype/GTM with minutes
- Sprint demo and sprint retrospective
We will have development server and CI to track progress. Deploy and make demo at the end of each sprint.
All the configuration and setup on server side and development stage can be done by us. Closely to release date we will setup "stage" server, where we can test/verify functionality, performance, etc., very closely to production environment.
We use best practices only: both git and mercurial for version control, vagrant for local development, continuous deployment with Jenkins, good unit test coverage, and Selenium for automated testing, fabric scripts for automated deployments, etc.
Development cycle:
- Concept
- Design
- Development
- Deploy
- Maintenance
When it is necessary for the client or project, we use elements of a classical methodology Waterfall:
- audit of IT systems,
- initial evaluation,
- description of functional requirements,
- writing of technical specification,
- development and construction,
- testing,
- production / implementation
- and maintenance.
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